The Great Flood (2025)

This is on Netflix now and as previewed in Coming Soon on our Projector Room Podcast, I was looking forward to this Korean disaster movie centred around a, yes, flood. The trailer looked good and I was up for it. However, all is not as it seems and this turns out not to simply be a straight-forward disaster movie in which a meteor hits Antarctica, melts all the snow, send loads of water north, which it does, but something much more and different - and I'm afraid, confusing!

I'm sure that as I get older I get thicker (no wonder my old dad gets confused with these stories) but once again I had to turn to YouTube to get some spotty oik to tell me what the feck was going on in this film! And once I'd digested that, yes, it kinda made sense. But it's still very confusing!

The flood is about to bring the end of humanity but some stuff had happened 5+ years before which tried to ensure that if this happened, humanity could bounce back. I won't say any more as anything would be spoiler stuff I think.

The special effects I thought were very good - the water (mostly) convincing and often scary. Underwater scenes were shot well as survival instinct kicked in for our characters, who you do start to care about and provide many thrilling moments. The actors involved generally did a good job and it was quite well produced and directed. But... well... the confusing bits in the story are presented, well, confusingly... and although the smart people around me here will no doubt get it first time, I needed help, as I say. Why not give it a go and see what you think. It's just under 2 hours long.